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KNOWLEDGE, MEDITATION, DEVOTION - PATHS
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IN THE CAVE OF MY HEART, ATMAN AND BRAHMAN SHALL NEVER PATH
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B Every being within Samsara, from the highest Brahmas to the lowest in the Hell realms, experiences life through the five aggregates (which in form includes the physical senses).
Every being is born, every being dies (except for the awakened). Their bodies die (ie. the Buddha's paranibbana) but at that point it's understood that which is subject to decay and cessation isn't theirs and the 'deathless' is attained.
The devas and brahmas are less likely to be greedy and hateful but they still can be. Those in the depraved realms (ie. ghost, hell, animal) are more likely to engage in violence, greed, hatred, delusion, etc. The human realm is a relative balance between pleasure and pain, peace and hate, and we can see those qualities among different people, including perhaps in our own lives as we go through progress or regress.
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LYF IS A SERIES OF EXPERIENCES ------- LEX MESS 56/100
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AWARENESS SCREEN CONSTANT - OBJECT IS CHANGING -EVERY EXP IS DIFFERENT
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PANCHADASI
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SAKSHI SWAVASTHI
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WAKING IS LIKE A LONG STABLE PERSISTENT DREAM
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REM DREM DREAM SLEEP
NREM- SLEPT LIKE A LOG
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DEEP SLEEP- AWARENESS
5. A person awaking from deep sleep consciously remembers his lack of perception during that state. Remembrance consists of objects experienced earlier. It is therefore clear that even in deep sleep ‘want of knowledge’ is perceived.
SUSHUPTI- EXPERIENCE OF ABSENCE
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ANECDOTE - AMTRAK, FREIGHT TRAIN THEN NO TRAIN - SSPA
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Clouds questioning about Sky. Clouds must know that without sky they do not have existence. Jai Sachidanand
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Bhrugu Valli, part of taitariya upanishad is a good example of what smamiji referred to as roadmaps. Bhrigu Valli is journey of sage Bhrugu as directed by his father Varuna.
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experience is a whole different thing I suppose. Waiting for that anubhuti which shows the inner divinity in myself
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SSPA ANECDOTE - CALM DTHING IN HOSPICE
BBTBR - PANTHEISM
ATMAN BACK TO NIRGUNA BRAHMAN - ABTNB PANENTHEISM
GAP OUT FROM BXM ...AWARENESS SCA ECB PURE BEING SILENCE - SRKH RVSR LINE - AVOID 2ND ARROW
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Vasudev sarvam-all(living beings & nonliving things- including man made things)are God:there is nothing like beings & things-there is only God/ consciousness/truth- knowledge-existence- awareness-bliss
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But in time to come it will be studies in greater length and revealed that there exists no consciousness or it is just a feature of the body (mind). And in the end there is no end from suffering. The demand to seek permanence is the root cause of just additional suffering. #
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“Man does not know real freedom. His dogmas are set and imposed upon him from the outside; his religious beliefs become frozen over the centuries. They do not come from within, anymore. They belong to an outside world.” Niranjan: The Tiger’s Fang
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“Those souls and spiritual travelers (the latter is the higher name for souls who are commonly called Margatmas, gurus, and masters), whom I know personally in the worlds beyond, have great wisdom, mercy, and compassion for all mankind, except when man becomes stubborn in his ignorance. Then they are scornful of man’s unwillingness to accept what the travelers desire to teach him. Any great soul whose spiritual mission is to help mankind, struggles under extreme hardships with man’s continued refusal to weigh what is divinely presented to him.”
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This is an old trick, but it’s profound.
Shut your eyes and gently press on your eyeballs through your eyelids. Gently! As if you were testing a mango.
See the light? Something like this, maybe?
That’s the retina reacting to the compression. There are lots of analogous experiences: neuropathic pain, tinnitus, vertigo…every one of our senses can malfunction.
Now, the difference here is that you know the cause. But what about your blind spots? Do you ‘know’ that there’s no light being received at the optic disc? There’s no photoreceptors there. Our brains ‘fill in the gap’ with a permanent hallucination. Same goes for the fact the we don’t notice any blurring with microsaccades, we don’t notice the fletcher-munson-like frequency-response curve of the cochlea calibrating loudness, and we don’t necessarily feel our clothes touching us all the time, even if they are.
Indirect realism is the basis of science. There is really stuff and there are really things that happen with that stuff, but our descriptions of that stuff and those happenings are not equivalent to reality. If they were then scientific insights could not change. Scientific progress is built on the fact that our models of the universe are wrong. That’s why we can make them better with increasing precision.
Shraddha is the acceptance of the validity of shastra pramana as being the same as that of pratyaksha pramana
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B The first truth, Buddha taught his disciples, is that suffering is part of the human condition. If we simply try to avoid confronting painful experiences, there is no way to begin the healing process. In fact, this denial creates the very conditions that promote and prolong unnecessary suffering.”
— Peter Levine
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We are the apes that imitate.
Narratives are fatal to reason.
On March 26, 1997, police in Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, found the bodies of thirty-nine members of Heaven’s Gate, an end-times religious sect whose members believed that after their suicides, they would be transported off the planet by a spacecraft hidden in the tail of Comet Hale–Bopp.
Just how do large numbers of people come to believe such outlandish and deadly narratives? Not only is man the ape that imitates, but he’s also the ape that tells stories, and it’s sad but true that a good story will often trump the most ironclad fact.
Modern humans evolved only about one or two hundred thousand years ago, and our major distinguishing characteristic is our large brain, which is the key to our survival as a species; we can’t run very fast, we can’t fly, we don’t have fearsome claws or teeth, and we’re not even all that strong. So the only way we stay alive is by employing language to communicate and cooperate with each other. When a band of hunters sallied forth to hunt a large, fast, and dangerous prey, they didn’t deploy mathematical vectors; rather, they issued narrative-based communications: “You go right, I’ll go left, and we’ll spear the beast from both sides.” We thus understand the world largely through narratives, and the more compelling the narrative, the more powerful it is.
Neuroscientists believe that narratives powerfully engage our brain’s fast-moving limbic system—our evolutionarily ancient “reptile brain”—and so make an end run around our large cerebral cortex—our newer, conscious, and much slower “thinking brain.” Most of the time, we employ narratives towards useful ends: The deployment of scary stories about unhealthy diets and smoking to encourage changes in mealtime behavior and tobacco consumption, of sermons and fables about honesty and hard work that improve societal function, and so forth. On the downside, by overwhelming our reasoning system and discouraging logical thought, narratives can get us into analytical trouble.
Thus, the more we depend on narratives, and the less on hard data, the more we are distracted away from the real world. Ever lose yourself so deeply in a novel that you became oblivious to the world around you? Ever heard a radio broadcast so hypnotizing that you sat in your driveway for ten minutes so you didn’t miss the end? Psychologists call this “transportation,” and it’s fatal to reason.
“If you want to analyze a subject, stick to the numbers and facts, and ignore the surrounding narrative.”
It turns out that even when presented with compelling narratives clearly labeled as fiction, we become unable to segregate the worlds of fiction and fact. In other words, we cannot cleanly “toggle” between the literary and real worlds, as occurred after the 1975 release of the movie Jaws, which caused formerly bold swimmers to huddle close to the shoreline. Producers Darryl Zanuck and David Brown knew just what they were doing; they delayed the film’s release to coincide with the summer season. As they put it, “There is no way that a bather who has seen or heard of the movie won’t think of a great white shark when he puts his toe in the ocean.”
Psychologists have studied this “Jaws effect” by exposing people to compelling narratives, and have found that the more strongly their subjects are transported into the narrative, the more their opinions are influenced by it; critically, it doesn’t matter whether the narratives are clearly labeled as fact or fiction. Even more amazingly, the more the subject is transported into a narrative, the less able they are to perform simple analysis of its content. In plain English, a high degree of narrative transportation impairs not only the ability to distinguish fact from fiction, but also impairs one’s critical facilities.
Put yet another way, the deeper the reader or listener enters into the story, the more they suspend disbelief, and the less attention they pay to whether it is, in reality, true or false. This study, and many others like it, make this startling and cynical suggestion: If you want to analyze a subject, stick to the numbers and facts, and ignore the surrounding narrative. But if you want to convince others of something, forget the facts and data, and tell them the catchiest story you can
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a All is one force, the Supreme One manifested and manifesting. Even the tremendous heat, energy, and light of the suns of the worlds are derived from this stream. Every ray of light in the universes is a phenomenon of this infinite stream of light. Upon its power depends the life of every living thing, including the stars in the physical universe. Not even a single rose may bring forth its bud without this power, and no child can smile without manifesting it.
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A “One hair of Alakh Purusha’s head will exceed in brightness that of a billion suns and moons. That is why he seldom manifests Himself, for the very brightness of Himself would burn the naked soul into cinders of its own atoms. But you will see. Any questions?”
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The soul will come together again upon the fifth plane, the region of Sat Lok, and there be rejoined before it becomes eligible for entering any of the higher worlds. God puts the soul back together again in such a way that it seems that it was always in its original state. Once soul has been rejoined, it can now return to God to take its place within the orbit of the divine, nameless heaven of mercy and love.
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